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VATICAN
CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original
Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three
shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to
paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:

"I
write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency
the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

"After
the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a
little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing,
it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but
they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him
from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried
out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense
light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when
they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that
it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going
up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn
trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father
passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step,
afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met
on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot
of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and
arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops,
Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks
and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each
with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood
of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to
God."

John
1:32-34. And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as a
dove from heaven; and he remained upon him. And I knew him not: but he who sent
me to baptize with water said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw: and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God.

In
the sixth period of the Church will begin the powerful Monarch and the Holy
Pontiff, as mentioned previously, and it will last until the revelation of Antichrist.
In this period, God will console His Holy Church for the affliction and great
tribulation which she has endured during the fifth period. All nations will
become Catholic. Vocations will be abundant as never before, and all men will
seek only the Kingdom of God and His justice. Men will live in peace, and this
will be granted because people will make their peace with God. They will live
under the protection of the Great Monarch and his successors.
The Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser